SOLUTION: A) the 1300 total students enrolled There are 1300 students taking an introductory class, and would like to know the proportion of these students that are freshmen. We draw a ra

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Question 1199143: A) the 1300 total students enrolled
There are 1300 students taking an introductory class, and would like to know the proportion of these students that are freshmen. We draw a random sample of size 100. We ask each of these 100 students whether they are freshmen. We then we find the proportion in this sample that are freshmen.
What is the statistic?
One of the following answers is correct. Which one is the correct answer?
A) the 1300 total students enrolled
B) the 100 students selected
C) the proportion of students in the sample that are freshmen
D) the proportion of students in the population that are freshmen
D) the total number of freshmen
Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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i think possible selection C: the proportion of students in the sample that are freshman.

definition i found on the web:

Statistics is a study of data: describing properties of data (descriptive statistics) and drawing conclusions about a population based on information in a sample (inferential statistics).Jan 10, 2021

your selections are:

A) the 1300 total students enrolled
B) the 100 students selected
C) the proportion of students in the sample that are freshmen
D) the proportion of students in the population that are freshmen
D) the total number of freshmen

looking at these selections, i would say that the statistic is the proportion of students in the sample that are freshman.

from that, you can estimate the proportion of freshman in the population.